How to support your child’s development with reading and writing.

1. How to support your child’s development with reading and writing.

2. After reading: • Can child point to and read the key words? Can they find the same word(s) in other books? • Discuss the story and characters. Can child re-tell the story in their own words looking at the pictures? • Give lots of praise Helping your child to read Tips when reading: Talk about pictures Model pointing to each word (not slide beneath) Ask child to copy Allow child to correct themselves If child doesn’t know a word – try different strategies to support Encourage child to say sounds in words and blend sounds together Give lots of praise Try and ensure your child makes sense of / understands what they have read. • How to encourage reading? • Let child see family/different people read books, newspapers, recipes, food packets • Write shopping lists together • Encourage child to write birthday, thank you cards etc • Read a bedtime story every night if possible

3. Describing parts of books: Front and back Cover Page Title Author Illustrator Blurb Top/ bottom of page Picture/ illustration Word/ sound • First / last • Beginning, middle, end • Speech • Capital letter • Full stop • Bold type • Exclamation mark ! • Question mark ? Reading: concepts & skills • Give children the chance to: • Talk about what has happened in pictures • Use pictures to predict what might happen • Retell a story in the correct sequence • Talk about the characters, setting, problem and solution • Look at, point to and say words on a page • Point out high frequency words • Point out some upper and lower case letter • Talk about elements of the text that give specific meaning Children need to understand: Written words give a message Words on the front of a book are the title Pictures can give meaning to the words Words on a page are read left to right The same spoken and written words have the same meaning How words are expressed adds meaning

4. Word Packs Helping to learn words • Memory game – place a small number of words on a table, child covers eyes, you remove a card,child names the missing card • Pairs – Copy set of words, face all down and turn to find matching pairs • Grab – make a smaller list of words (from pack), turn pack words face down, turn over and if it matches , grab the word or turn back over • Flash cards – give words in a random order, ask child to put words into a short sentence • Word detective – give child a word, ask him to find it in his reading book/ any book What are they? Contain key words that children need to know by sight 13 different word packs A word can appear twice with a lower case or capital first letter Teacher/ TA will change the word pack when child has read the words correctly • Keeping track • A master list is kept in the back of childs reading record

8. Tips to support writing: • Praise any attempt at writing • Ask, Can you read what you have written? • Let child see you writing • Encourage to write for a purpose, e.g thank you cards etc. • Support children to segment words as appropriate • Clap longer words to break into syllables • Do not expect all words to be spelt correctly Helping your child to write Tips to support handwriting: Encourage tripod pencil grip Talk through letter formation Act out letter formation: magic wand, light sabre, sand, foam, mud, paint Sing finger action songs

9. Letter formation

10. Pre cursive

11. Helping with Phonics How to help with phonics: Focus on the weekly sounds, letters and tricky words Use sounds, not letter names when segmenting and blending words Play games, point out the above in newspapers/ magazines/ books Sing nursery rhymes and songs, encourage listening Play I spy, show that every word begins with a letter Segment words, e.g ‘pass me the c-u-p’

13. Useful links Development Matters https://www.foundationyears.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Development-Matters-FINAL-PRINT-AMENDED.pdf Jolly phonics actions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fScUJd9wSd0 Letters and Sounds https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/190599/Letters_and_Sounds_-_DFES-00281-2007.pdf Phonics Play https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/